Video: Cars exploding with fireworks. Installation "Inopportune: Stage One"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Once the Chinese author Cai Guo-Qiang has already shown himself on our pages as a lover of explosive entertainment, presenting to our attention a series gunpowder paintings … As it turned out, this was not the end of the author's interest in the "explosive" subject, finding its continuation in the installation "Inopportune: Stage One".
Inopportune: Stage One is a massive installation of nine identical white cars. The first and last cars stand on the ground untouched, while the rest are suspended in the air, forming a kind of arch and flashing beams of bright light. What he saw resembles shots from the film, where the car, taking off into the air, explodes once, twice, three times, and then falls to the ground unharmed, as if nothing had happened. The illusion of explosions is created by long glowing rods that pierce each car and resemble sparks of fireworks scattering to the sides.
Cai Guo-Qiang is a New Yorker and the installation "Inopportune: Stage One" is, among other things, a tribute to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. “I wanted to show that what is used for destruction and terror can be constructive, beautiful and healing,” the author says of his “exploding” piece. In addition, fireworks are an integral part of the life of Cai Guo-Qiang, who grew up on Chinese traditions: “In my homeland, any important event, good or bad - weddings, funerals, childbirth, housewarming - was celebrated with explosions of firecrackers and fireworks. These explosions became a kind of heralds, announcing that something had happened in the city again”.
Inopportune: Stage One is one of four parts of a larger installation by the 53-year-old, called Inopportune. The other three parts include another installation depicting tigers pierced with arrows, a video work and a series of paintings.
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